Eli Zaretsky Archives - Public Seminar

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New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 3

Psychoanalytic resources for (anti-) fascist mobilization

April 19, 2019 • by Lucas Ballestín

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koK79g4O-qQ&feature=youtu.be Organized by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London) and Chiara Bottici (New School) What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to ...

New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 3

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Book Presentation: Fire and Blood

April 29, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Enzo Traverso presents his latest book, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945. with comments by professors Cinzia Arruzza, Federico Finchelstein, Andreas Kalyvas, and Eli Zaretsky. Fire and Blood (Verso Books) looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its ...

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Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

February 16, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Video Minutes: [list] [list_item icon=""] Jason W. Moore Nancy Fraser Eli Zaretsky Q&A [/list_item] [/list] The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015). The conversation was moderated by Christian Parenti. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web ...

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

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Shades of Gray

November 28, 2015 • by Laura Nelson

First of all, my apologies for the title: I thought it irresistibly appropriate, but unfortunately and unintentionally reminiscent of that awful series of potboiler novels. . . My aim is to try to broaden this attempt at dialogue initiated by Professors Goldfarb and Zaretsky in their point/counterpoint into a multifaceted conversation ...

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Gray is Beautiful: An Open Letter to Eli Zaretsky

November 10, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Dear Eli, I find myself repeatedly disagreeing with your judgments as expressed here on Public Seminar. I have fleetingly shared this with you via email, in Facebook comments and in The New School hallways, but here I will try to explain more fully. I will be doing so addressing a paradox: ...

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Standing on the Barricades

October 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Returning to Gray is Beautiful Last year I announced my intention to write a series of posts for the PS Commons (we’re now calling these “letters”) around the gray is beautiful theme. Predictably, things got in the way. I did write soon thereafter on controversies surrounding Israel/Palestine and Turkey/Kurdistan. But then ...

Education

Adjusting the Lens on Rape Culture

September 10, 2015 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Notably absent from Zaretsky’s idyllic depiction of the college campus as an outpost of sexual freedom and experimentation is any discussion of the role of the drug and alcohol culture in such settings. Zaretsky’s campus thrums with intellectual and cultural exchange -- as he says, in classes, athletic and cultural ...

Education

O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 1

April 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“The proponents of M.O.O.C.s (Massive Open Online Courses) look for the magic bullet, hoping to find a technological solution to the crisis in education. The O.O.P.S. (Open Online Public Seminar) project is to use the new technology, the potential of the web, to extend education’s promise.”

With these words, I closed ...

Theory & Practice

OOPS versus MOOCs

February 4, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I first thought of writing this post over a year ago as a follow up to my piece “Against the Educational Uncertainty Principle.” I was struck by the way that recent interventions to address the various dimensions of higher educational crisis have made matters worse. MOOCs, Massive Open Online ...

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Shifting Geographies Rather Than Defections

The debate on feminists and the Left continues

April 4, 2014 • by Ann Snitow and Victoria Hattam

We share Zaretsky’s desire to understand the trajectory of the Left past, present, and future. We disagree with him over the nature of the Left itself and with his account of the dynamics of political change. Where Zaretsky looks to the long duree and to political breaks as sources of ...

Shifting Geographies Rather Than Defections

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Look Out Kids: On the New and Next Left

A reply to Eli Zaretsky

February 26, 2014 • by Jeremy Varon

Bundled into Eli Zaretsky’s unmistakable claim that second wave feminism was substantially to blame for the undoing of the 60s-era Left is another curious charge: that no American Left exists today, or has for a long time [“Rethinking the Split Between Feminists and the Left”]. In their response, Ann ...

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The Women Did It?

A reply to Eli Zaretsky

February 10, 2014 • by Ann Snitow and Victoria Hattam

We are living through dark times. Many lament the decline of a vibrant Left in American politics; why the right has been ascendant for the past quarter century is a matter worth extensive exploration. Zaretsky’s “Rethinking the Split Between Feminists and the Left,” however, both underestimates the deep roots ...